Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 2.11.48, 3.6.19, and 3.7.3, there is a high severity vulnerability in Traefik's StripPrefix middleware that allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass route-level authentication and authorization. When a public router matches on a PathPrefix rule and applies the StripPrefix middleware, a request path containing .. or its percent-encoded form %2e%2e can match the public route at routing time and then, after the prefix is stripped and the path is normalized, resolve to a path served by a separate, authenticated router. As a result, an attacker can reach protected backend paths — such as admin or internal configuration endpoints — without satisfying the authentication middleware attached to the protected router. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.48, 3.6.19, and 3.7.3.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-xf64-8mw2-4gr2 Traefik has a StripPrefix Route-Level Auth Bypass via Path Normalization
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Solution

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Workaround

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History

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

threat_severity

Important


Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Traefik
Traefik traefik
Vendors & Products Traefik
Traefik traefik

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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Description Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 2.11.48, 3.6.19, and 3.7.3, there is a high severity vulnerability in Traefik's StripPrefix middleware that allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass route-level authentication and authorization. When a public router matches on a PathPrefix rule and applies the StripPrefix middleware, a request path containing .. or its percent-encoded form %2e%2e can match the public route at routing time and then, after the prefix is stripped and the path is normalized, resolve to a path served by a separate, authenticated router. As a result, an attacker can reach protected backend paths — such as admin or internal configuration endpoints — without satisfying the authentication middleware attached to the protected router. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.48, 3.6.19, and 3.7.3.
Title Traefik StripPrefix Route-Level Auth Bypass via Path Normalization
Weaknesses CWE-288
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-15T00:48:32.461Z

Reserved: 2026-05-20T17:44:09.587Z

Link: CVE-2026-48020

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-15T00:48:32.461Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2026-06-23T20:16:47.993

Modified: 2026-07-15T02:22:21.210

Link: CVE-2026-48020

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-06-23T19:10:31Z

Links: CVE-2026-48020 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-26T01:30:17Z

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